Subject: Re: CF Vendors
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Erik Berls <cyber@ono-sendai.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 07/07/2007 08:54:30
So, continuing to poke around, Lexar professional series seems to have a 300x!
(Thanks to Jared who found the link.)
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10087181&catid=20087
The 2G variant is still over 4 times as expensive as the 266x A-DATA.
For these servers, I'll just chance it. [;-) (My camera can't
handle the speed, and I'd rather put the $$$ towards new lenses.)
-=erik.
On 7/1/07, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> I'm swapping out the hard drives in my Cobalt Raq2's with CF cards in
> order to make them a little cooler, and a little quieter. I was
> browsing through Newegg and came across a vendor that was selling CF
> cards that were listed as 266x, 40MB/s. The vendor is A-DATA.
>
> Anyone have any experience with them? None of the other big names
> (SanDisk, Kingston) had anything available above 133x.
>
> I pay attention to CF for digital cameras, and have never considered
> anything other than sandisk and lexar, and basically just order sandisk
> Extreme III these days. I am highly suspicious of the A-DATA name and
> 40 MB/s. The Sandisk E3 seems to do 9 MB/s to a DOS filesystem when
> written by the camera (which is really all that counts for that use).
>
> See
>
> http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007
>
> for a camera-centric review.
>